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Bruin The Bear And Reynard part 2
“Ay!” quoth Bruin; “honeycombs, do you say? Hold you them in such slight respect, nephew? Why, sir, it is food for the greatest emperors...
Bruin The Bear And Reynard part 1
Anonymous: about 1230
Nothing is known of the writer of the first version of the celebrated Reynard the Fox. The problem of the origin of...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 10
He looked on the maid right sweetly, and he said, “I will not cease to serve them. Never, while I live, will I lay...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 9
Thinking thus he waxed oft white and red; yea, graceful and proud stood the son of Sieglind, goodliest of heroes to behold, as he...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 8
The guests brought with them to the Rhine, to the tourney, saddles worked in ruddy gold, and finely wrought shields, and knightly apparel. And...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 7
Said Gunther, “Ye shall both go free. Yet I must have a pledge that my foremen quit not my land till peace be sealed...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 6
“Ortwin of Metz, also, won worship. Whoso came within range of his sword lieth wounded or dead. Thy brother, too, made fierce havoc in...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 5
The dead lay in heaps. Sindolt and Hunolt and Ortwin the knight slew many in the strife. The princes held together in the fray....
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 4
They of Denmark were aghast when they heard their king was taken captive; they told it to his brother, who fell in a great...
Siegfried and Kriemhild part 3
“Sit thou at home, O King,” spake Siegfried. “Since thy knights are willing to follow me, stay here by the women and be of...